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Examined the impact of military service and exposure to war trauma on marital patterns and problems in a stratified, probability sample of 1,259 nonveterans, era veterans, and Vietnam veterans. Results focus on rates of marriage, age at first marriage, rates of divorce, and levels of marital satisfaction. (Author/BL)

Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a "classic" period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b) a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new conceptual and methodological tools to examine change over time; (c) a period of consolidation and reformulation, with more precise specification of competing theoretical frameworks and the analysis of a growing body of empirical data. From this effort five issues emerge which summarize the perspective of generational analysis: (a) definition and dimensions of "generation" as a construct; (b) assessment of continuity or discontinuity between age groups; (c) exploration of the persistence of generation units over time; (d) analysis of within-generation solidarity; (e) articulation between generations and other dimensions of social structure. A feedback model appears useful in assessing the relationship between generations and social stability or change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If we are to understand privacy as a future as well as a contemporary social issue, we must understand privacy as a concept. Individuals' concepts of privacy are tied to concrete situations in everyday life. These situations are described in terms of three dimensions: self-ego, environmental, and interpersonal. In combination with the dynamic of time, both developmental and sociohistorical, this situational analysis helps us to understand individual perceptions of privacy and privacy invasion, to predict potential privacy or invasion experiences, and to see the potential effects of the absence of certain privacy-related experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A crucial but underdeveloped aspect of generational analysis concerns the importance of class groupings on the development of generation-based issues, and the necessity of examining the way in which superordinate and subordinate class groupings mediate the experience of age-cohort membership. If one distinguishes the demographic (or cohort) perspective on generations from that which focuses on smaller age-based groupings that provide specific impetus for social change (generation units), one can explore the antecedents of generation unit formation among upper-middle class youth of the past decade, and examine the role of social and technological innovation in the creation of alternative generational styles. Four types of generational units among youth are delineated-radicalism, freakism, communalism, and revivalism—and the possibility of generational units among the elderly is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generational analysis has developed rapidly in recent years. Three progressive stages of theory and research can be traced: (a) a ‘classic’ period during which competing perspectives were developed regarding the impact of youth groups on social structure (Mannheim, Parsons and Eisenstadt, Davis and others); (b)a phase focused on interpretations of the youth protest movement or on processes in old age, and characterized by the development of new conceptual and methodological tools to examine change over time; (c) a period of consolidation and reformulation, with more precise specification of competing theoretical frameworks and the analysis of a growing body of empirical data. From this effort five issues emerge which summarize the perspective of generational analysis: (a) definition and dimensions of ‘genera- tion’ as a construct; (b) assessment of continuity or discontinuity between age groups; (c) exploration of the persistence of generation units over time; (d) analysis of within-generation solidarity; (e) articulation between generations and other dimensions of social structure. A feedback model appears useful in assessing the relationship between generations and social stability or change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deals with the institutionalization of radical movements in the U.S. and the Netherlands in the 1960s and in the early 1970s. Differences between the political systems in Holland and in the U.S.; Details on several radical movements; Involvement of the radicals in the electoral system; Intent of radicals in the U.S. to develop as a social movement.

Younger faculty challenge older faculty by questioning the legitimacy of their roles, claiming the university perverts science for purposes of propaganda and social control. This is primarily a conflict of values, with younger faculty adopting the values of post-World War II students. Primary and secondary sources; 17 notes, biblio.

A response by Robert S. Laufer, Elizabeth Brett and M. S. Gallops to a letter to the editor about their article on posttraumatic stress disorder is presented.